Molecular Approaches to Oral Therapeutics: Dentistry in the Next Millennium?

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Dr. Barnett is Senior Director, Dental Affairs, Warner-Lambert Company, 170 Tabor Road, Morris Plains, NJ 07950, USA. This editorial is based on the author's discussion of the symposium, "New Molecular Approaches to Oral Therapeutics", presented at the 1996 AADR Annual Session.